Dover!

Since I didn't say much about Stonehenge in my last post I'd like to elaborate on it now. To me it wasn't that monumental or moving but it was interesting to wonder about how did horribly primitive people move such big rocks from so far away.

Anyways after that we drove to Canterbury which was near Dover, the town that has the ferry port to Calais in France. On our way to Canterbury we looked in our book and saw that Charles Darwin's house was on the way so we decided to stop and see it. For those of you who don`t know who Charles Darwin is, he wrote the book `The Origin of The Species`. He wrote it after his voyage around the world in five years on the H.M.S. Beagle. The book is about the evolution of all species and his version of it was the most accurate the time. He was opposing the bible which at that time, was a pretty big thing.

After that we kept driving to Canterbury. We spent two days there so Jack could catch up on his work and so we could go see the castles in the area. One of them was the Dover Castle, one of the best kept castles in the world. It was used time in middle ages, in the Napoleonic wars and then again as acommand center for the Dunkirk evacuation in the 2^nd world war. The British launched a huge attack on German occupied France at Dunkirk. It horribly failed and the Germans pushed the British troops practically in the English Channel. The British mustered almost every single boat on the English Channel in a rescue attempt and Dover was the base of opperations for it. We also saw two other castles that guarded the opening of the River Thames.

 


 

An't no BC Ferrys

Queen Bella!

Frolicking!

The White cliffs of Dover!